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...debated that question at a conference in Racine, Wis., last month. "We agree we can reasonably expect next year's maximum to be ten inches above this year's," says Charles Collinson, principal geologist at the Illinois State Geological Survey. Projections based on long-term weather patterns offer no comfort. Says Collinson: "We agree we can expect high lake levels for six years and possibly even a decade more." Curtis Larsen, a U.S. Geological Survey researcher who has studied the lakes' ebb and flow dating back 7,000 years, predicts Lake Michigan may ultimately reach 585 ft., three feet above...
...challenge of illumination has often led to amusing and beautiful solutions, as can be seen in Art Nouveau and Art Deco Lamps and Candlesticks by Wolf Uecker (Abbeville; 280 pages; $75). Illustrations include color and black-and-white photographs of glass lamps by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Daum Freres, brass fantasies wrought by Josef Hoffmann and a lacquered wood-and-parchment floor fixture by Eileen Gray. There are modernist abstractions as well as familiar nymphs in flowing robes. Among the most delightful surprises: a bronze snail, its light contained beneath a shell of oxide-colored glass, and Emile Galle...
...audiences who come to the theater for feeling rather than anesthesia, for honesty rather than comfort, Broadway Bound should firmly establish Simon's standing in the top rank of American playwrights. He does not attempt to do what Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams and Sam Shepard have done: create their own worlds and mesmerize viewers into them. Simon evokes a world very much like the viewers' own and entices them into confronting their own feelings. Broadway Bound is the work of a master craftsman, at once literary and heartfelt, shaped with becoming modesty. It is unmistakably urban and Jewish...
...could have gone abroad to live in greater safety and comfort. But you were passionate about Istanbul and would always say, "This city belongs to us all, regardless of religion and ethnicity...
...bearings. We imagine that the Greeks and Romans knew what stars to steer by, that virtues such as honor and bravery, nobility and loyalty, guided their behavior. We think that the classical world was sharply defined, immune to the little cowardices of doubt. We would like the comfort of thinking that our times can be like that too. "This administration ... divides the world into friends and foes, and the foes are incorrigible and not redeemable," veteran Middle East negotiator Dennis Ross told the New York Times recently, which sounded to me like a description of a bunch of people...